Auto Assault's Vehicular MMO Mayhem Probed

Thanks to Gamebunny for its interview with Ryan Seabury of Auto Assault developers NetDevil, regarding the PC MMO "set in a post-apocalyptic future" which "combines vehicular combat with role-playing elements." Seabury discusses what the E3 audience enjoyed the most about the game (apparently, "everyone loved the Biomech 'Hazard Mode' (transforming into a hulking Mech and laying waste to the immediate vicinity)"), and also deflects comparisons to EA's already defunct vehicular MMO, Motor City Online: "From what I understand, we're about as different to MCO as, say... Grand Theft Auto is to Gran Turismo. Auto Assault is by no means a simulator. Our focus is squarely on over-the-top vehicular combat and mayhem... and action-oriented play style, with character development behind the vehicles."

Comments

gimme gimme gimme..

[gl4ss]

and let it be good.

makes me want to dig out the interstate 76 and 82 again..

street rod style tuning AND guns..

motor city online kind of blowed.. it wasn't very immersive. no driving around the world flashing headlights to challange people... and I didn't particularly like the driving model either(and some of the parts were exchangeable with each other when it made nosense, some pistons & stuff).

give me street rod mmo mixed with gta style driving around a humongous city..

Looks like a Steve Jackson game to me.

[edwilli]

This looks like an online version of Car Wars. Which was a fantastic game on paper, I hope it's done justice online.

Street Ricer MMO anyone?

[h0mer]

I'd like to see something along the lines of a MMO Project Gotham Racing/Need For Speed: Underground. Drive around the city, race other players at stoplights and through traffic. Instead of guilds, you could have racing crews and I suspect there could be some intense rivalries.

Midnight Club 2 online was similar to this, but I'd like a persistent world.